Stretch Quotes

You're never as good as people think you are when you're winning and never as bad as people think you are when you're losing. Teams are funny. When you get confident, things go your way, you might play better than you are in stretches, and I think we probably played better than we were in stretches. - Dale Layer

You're going to go through little stretches where things aren't exactly going your way... But if you keep going out there making your pitches, you're going to get out of it a lot quicker than always worrying about, 'Why is this happening to me?' - Joe Borowski

You're always going to have mistakes. You're not going to play perfectly down the stretch, when everything has to work. You know there are going to be some miscues. We just haven't played solidly in the first half and we've had to dig out of that. ... It's just a bit too much for us. - Dick Bennett

Young quarterbacks are going to be like this. Do I think he has to play better? Yeah. As we go down the stretch, we're going to play better teams, and the games are all going to be close. We're obviously going to play every game close, that's just the way we are. And I have a feeling he will play better. He plays better with more on the line. - Ernie Accorsi

You worry about distorting it, you put so much detail into something big and you're afraid it'll get lost (when you stretch it out). - Lissa Juedemann

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched. - Norman Vincent Peale

You want your starting pitching to give you a chance to win games. Certainly they've done more than that in this stretch. - Jim Leyland

You took an area that already has a struggling social service safety net, and into that net you dumped 250,000 people who desperately need help. We weren't helping the folks who were already here and now we're really going to have to stretch. - Scott McCown

You think of fractures and cracks, and think four to six weeks [for recovery], and that's not what we're dealing with here... As soon as this calms down and he's OK with it, you let him go back out there. The risk is -- and the reason we're doing this -- you don't want to run the risk of rupturing his patellar tendon because that's what attaches down there. To call it a fracture is a huge stretch. - Mark O'Neal